A River Wide
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Mountains have deep, dark hearts, and those hearts are carved by water. Deep in the shadowed hollers of Appalachia, Rhia Blackburn has always kept her powers and her heart buried. Around here, the river whispers dark secrets, the earth remembers every cut, and survival is a skill women pass down in blood. But when her cousin Amey is kidnapped up the mountain, Rhia is forced to confront the terror of her home and her own troubled history. To save her, Rhia must trust her powers-and herself-because in Appalachia, family comes first and water always finds a way.
An Appalachian horror novella about family, grief, and the stubborn strength it takes to survive.
Amanda J McGee
Amanda J. McGee is a planner by day and a writer by night. She has degrees from Hollins University and Virginia Tech, where she studied languages, identity politics, policy, and infrastructure. She is the author of the dark epic fantasy series The Creation Saga and is an Art Matters Grant recipient, a program of the City of Roanoke and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her novella Viridian was published in the anthology A Sinister Quartet, which made the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List. A River Wide is her debut standalone novella.
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